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The Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl has a discomfiting gift for making the viewer complicit in whatever's happening onscreen.

Austrian Blues ; Why are Austrian films so relentlessly pessimistic? Ulrich Seidl, director of a grim new trilogy, assures Donald Clarke that it's a legacy of the country's past - and argues that while the truth may be miserable, facing it can lead to change You couldn't say that Austrian cinema doesn't have an identity.

Right after my Deadline Hollywood colleague Pete Hammond moderated a Weinstein Company panel this morning on Big Eyes , the film that Tim Burton will direct with Christoph Waltz and Amy Adams, I moderated another on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Green Destiny , a sequel to the 2000 film that won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, and at ... (more)

First up from Screen Daily comes the news that Butterfield and Moretz will be joining the dark fantasy tale, The White Circus .

Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke was announced here Thursday as the recipient of the 2013 Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts.